Match-making machine.



H. A. GSELL.

MATCH MAKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED 1130.8, 1913.

1,107,060, Patented Aug. 11, 1914,

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THE NORRIS PETERS C04. PHOm-LFTHll. WASHINGTON. D. C

H. A. GSELL.

MATCH MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED no. a, 1913.

'1 .107,060. Patented Aug. 11, 1914 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

YHE NORRIS PETERS C0. PMOTU-LITHQ. WASHINGMN. D. C.

HENRY ALFRED GSELL, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

MATCH-MAKING MACHINE.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

Application filed December 8, 1913. Serial No. 805,310.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY ALFRED GsELL, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing at Paris, France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Match-Making Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the specification of my earlier U. S. Patent 1,028,349 there is described. a machine wherein the conveying device moving in a closed cycle consists of a number of slides which place themselves beneath the place of ejection of the match-making ma chine, in order to receive directly matches during each ejection period. After the ejection of the matches each of these slides is advanced and replaced by the next following slide, the first named slide conveying the matches gradually and step by step to the place of delivery, then moving farther forward into the receiving position. In this device a large number of slides have to be provided, since the ejection periods follow one another at very short intervals. As described in my aforesaid specification, the number of slides can be considerably reduced if the matches ejected at each ejection period are not delivered directly to the filling apparatus but are first received by a collecting member which can hold the matches of several eject-ion periods. i

According to the present invention the device described in my aforesaid specifica tion is so far simplified that only one slide, moving in a closed cycle is provided. In the device according to the present invention, this slide serving as a conveying device, receives the matches, collected in an intermediate member during several ejection periods, in order to deliver them, during its closed cycle to the filling magazine. During the period during which this slide performs its movement, the collecting or intermediate member receives the matches ejected during the different ejection periods. It is therefore possible to introduce as many ejection periods to the intermediate organ as will allow sufiicient time for the forward move ment of the slide and its return into its of example in the accompanying drawings,-

in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the filling device, some part-s being shown in section. Fig. 1 is a section on the line AB of Fig. 1, Figs. 2 to 5 show diagrammatically the operation of this device, and Fig. 6 shows a front elevation of a second construction of a filling device according to this invention and Fig. 7 a detail of this device.

1 indicates the carrier bars, which are advanced in a known manner by feed wheels not shown. At the rear of the group of rows of matches to be ejected there is situated the ejecting device, of which the ejecting needles 2 are shown in Fig. 1. The ejection troughs are marked 3. Directly beneath these troughs a slide 4 is arranged, on which a rail 5 extending in the longitudinal direction of same is secured and connected to rods 6, 6, 6". The lever 6 is rotatably mounted on a pin 7 and carries a roller 8, working in a cam groove in a disk mounted on the main driving shaft 9 of the device. By means of these rods 6, 6 and 6 the slide 4; is moved to-and-fro in the guide 10 provided in the machine framing 1 1. Beneath the ejection trough 3 is a piston or conveying slide 11 which is provided with a rod 12. The rod 12 is provided with a rollerl3 at its lower end and is guided in a cross piece 15. An arm 16 of this cross piece 15 is suitably connected to the lever 17, that is rotatably mounted on the pin 7 and carries a roller 18 working in a cam groove 18 of the disk 18* mounted on the shaft 9 in such a manner that the said cross piece can be moved toand-fro in the guide 19 of the frame 14 by means of this lever 17. The said roller 13 works in a groove 21 of a carrier 20, the rod 22 of which is guided in the bracket 23 secured to the framing 1 1. The carrier 20 is moved up and down by means of a rod 24 connected in a suitable manner to the piston 22, whereby the said rod 2 1 which is rotatably mounted on the pin 25 and carries a roller 26 working in a cam groove in a disk mounted on the shaft'9, receives a rocking motion.

27 indicates the filling trough or the magazine. Directly beneath this magazine is a slide 28 which like the slide 4 is provided with a cross piece 29 and, by means of the rods 30, 30 is moved to-and-fro in the guide 31 provided in the framing 14:, whereby a rocking movement is imparted to the rod 8O which is rotatably supported at 30 and carries an antifriction roller 30 working in a cam groove in the disk 18". In order that the matches on the conveying slide 11 shall remain in the requisite position, it is advisable to fix a back wall 32 (Fig. 1) on the cross piece 15.

, The operation of the improved device is as follows: After the slide 4: serving as a collecting member has received matches from several ejection periods it is moved to the right in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 1, so that the matches fall on to the conveying slide 11, arranged beneath the slide 4:, before the beginning of this movement of the latter. Hereupon the slide 11, by means of the parts 12, 13, 20, 21, 24, 26, is moved downward whereby the slide 1 during this movement of the slide 11 is again brought into the normal position in which it closes the ejection trough 3 at the bottom. As soon as the conveying slide 11 has been moved down to the necessary extent (see Fig. 2), it is moved so long in a horizontal direction to the right, by means of the movement of the cross piece 15, un til it is situated vertically beneath the magazine 27, that is to say it is brought into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. Hereupon this transporting slide 11 is raised vertically until it is situated directly beneath the magazine 27. The slide 28 usually closing the said magazine 27 "at the bottom, is moved to the left shortly before the end of the upstroke of the conveying slide; so that the conveying slide 11 can now introduce the matches from below into the magazine 27. The different slides assume at this moment the position shows in Fig. 3, the arrangement being such that the upper edge of the slide 28 and the up-. per edge of the conveying slide 11, during its highest position under the magazine 27, are situated together in the same horizontal plane. When the matches have been pushed into the magazine, the conveying slide 11 is' moved back again, 2'. 6. toward the left while; the slide 28, during the return of the conveying slide, also moves with the same speed; and in the same direction as the latter, until the magazine is completely closed at the, bottom by means of same (Fig. 1). hen the slide 11 has assumed the position shown in Fig. 4. in broken lines, it is lowered in. the direction of the arrow and brought into the position shown in Fig. 5, and then moved farther to the left in the direction of the arrow shown in this figure. When the slide 11 is again situated vertically beneatlr the ejection part 3 it is finally pushed again into the position shown in Fig. 1 whereupon it has completed its cycle. The sequenee of operation just described is then repeated.

In order to prevent friction between the inflammable heads of the matches and the reciprocating slide 28 in the described apparatus, the arrangement shown in Figs. 6 and 7 can be used, which allows of the use of the device for the filling of matches that will ignite anywhere. According to this construction shown in Figs. 6 and 7 a rigid supporting plate 83 is provided on the underside of the front magazine wall 85, while the lower part of the back wall of the magazine is formed as a movable slide 3 1. The operation of this altered modification is as followsz-The conveying slide 11 is raised in this case a little higher than the reciprocating slide 28, so that the front ends of the matches lying on the slide 11 lie above the level of the fixed plate 33. When the slide 11 assumes its highest position, the movable part 34: of the back wall of the magazine pushes the matches toward the front wall 35 of the magazine (Fig. 7 On moving the slide 28 in the direction of the arrow shown in the Fig. 7 beneath the magazine 27, the heads of the matches find a firm support on the fixed plate 33, so that they do not come at all into contact with the moving slide 28 and are subjected to no friction whatever so to speak. Nhen the magazine is completely closed by the slide 28, the movable part 3 L of the back wall of the magazine is moved back, in order to be brought again into the position shown in Fig. 6.

It is to be understood that, of course, the individual parts may be modified as regards their construction without thereby departing from the nature of the present invention.

Claims:

1.-In a device for removing the finished matches from a match-making machine, an ejection trough arranged adjacent the discharging end of the match making machine, an intermittently moved collecting member arranged beneath the ejection trough, a filling trough arranged at a certain distance from the ejection trough and a conveying member moved in a vertical plane in a substantial rectangular cycle and conveying the matches received from the collecting member to the filling trough.

2. In a device for removing the finished matches from a match-making machine, a trough for receiving the matches from the carrier bars of the match-making machine, a horizontally movable collecting slide normally closing the ejection trough at the bottom, a stationary filling trough arranged at a certain distance from the ejection trough and at substantially the same level as the latter, a single conveying slide moving in a vertical plane in a rectangular cycle and introducing the matches received from said collecting slide and kept permanently in a horizontal position in the filling trough, and reciprocatin means arranged immediately below said filling trough.

3. In a device for removing the finished matches from a match-making machine an ejection trough, a horizontally movable collecting slide normally closing the ejection trough at the bottom, a filling trough arranged at a certain distance from the ejection trough, a single conveying slide moving in a closed cycle and conveying the matches received from the collecting slide to the filling trough, a slide openlng and closing periodically the filling trough in order to allow the matches to be introduced from the conveying slide from below and means for moving said openin and closing slide and the conveying slide during the return movement of the latter with the same speed and in the same direction until the filling trough is completely closed at the bottom by said slide.

4. In a device for removing the finished matches from a match-making machine an ejection trough, a horizontally movable collecting slide normally closing the ejection trough at the bottom, a filling trough arranged at a certain distance from the ejection trough, the lower part of the back wall of this trou h being movable, a rigid plate secured to t e under side of the front wall of the filling trough, a single conveying slide moving in a closed cycle and conveying the matches received from the collecting slide to the filling trough and means opening and closing periodically the filling trough in order to allow the matches to be introduced from the conveying slide from below.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY ALFRED GSELL.

Witnesses:

HANSON C. Coxn, O. TISGHENKASE.

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' Washington, I). C. 

